My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'
I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports or plays or school performances so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.
Movies TV sports come and go but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela Martin Luther King John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.
My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.
Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13 I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working sports and school I hardly ever had free time.
My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.
In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.
What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
Sports betting is all about money management so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
You go to Holland France Germany every community the tiniest village they have magnificent pristine sports facilities.
They read their sports pages know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans pro or con over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
Unlike any other business in the United States sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Growing up in Huntington Beach you were either a traditional sports athlete a skateboarder or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years did a little BMX racing as a kid and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.
Just like music sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.